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The Natural Funeral

Contact Name: Karen van Vuuren

Phone: 720-515-2344Email: vasb@guranghenyshareny.pbzWebsite: TheNaturalFuneral.comCEOLC Member Profile: The Natural Funeral

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Reverent Body Care, Urns and/or Caskets, Water Cremation

Categories of Service Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Reverent Body Care, Urns and/or Caskets, Water Cremation

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Christine Pollock

Phone: 303 582-5828Email: puevfgvar@qhenatbraqbsyvsrqbhynf.pbzWebsite: Durango End of Life Doulas

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Aromatherapy/Essential Oils, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Client Advocacy, Companioning for Dying Person, Crystal Work, Directories, Education/Training, End-of-Life Doula Services, Green Burial, Life Review, MAiD Support, Massage Therapy (Licensed), Meditation/Visualization, Memorials, Other Therapies, Planning/Legal, Reiki/Energy Work, Respite for Caregivers, Reverent Body Care, Sitting Vigil, Speakers Bureau, Spiritual Guidance, Support for Caregivers, Support/Advocacy, Therapies, Vibrational Sound Healing, Vigil Planning, VSED Support, Yoga, Restorative/Supportive

Categories of Service Advance Care Planning, Aromatherapy/Essential Oils, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Client Advocacy, Companioning for Dying Person, Crystal Work, Directories, Education/Training, End-of-Life Doula Services, Green Burial, Life Review, MAiD Support, Massage Therapy (Licensed), Meditation/Visualization, Memorials, Other Therapies, Planning/Legal, Reiki/Energy Work, Respite for Caregivers, Reverent Body Care, Sitting Vigil, Speakers Bureau, Spiritual Guidance, Support for Caregivers, Support/Advocacy, Therapies, Vibrational Sound Healing, Vigil Planning, VSED Support, Yoga, Restorative/Supportive

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Christine Pollock

Sacred Passage End of Life Doula, Holistic Energy PractitionerDurango End-of-Life Doulas

Location: Serving Durango and the Four Corners Region including Bayfield, Mancos Durango Colorado 81301 Phone: 303 582-5828Email: puevfgvar@qhenatbraqbsyvsrqbhynf.pbzWebsite: Durango End of Life Doulas

Categories: Advance Care Planning, Aromatherapy/Essential Oils, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Client Advocacy, Companioning for Dying Person, Crystal Work, Directories, Education/Training, End-of-Life Doula Services, Green Burial, Life Review, MAiD Support, Massage Therapy (Licensed), Meditation/Visualization, Memorials, Other Therapies, Planning/Legal, Reiki/Energy Work, Respite for Caregivers, Reverent Body Care, Sitting Vigil, Spiritual Guidance, Support/Advocacy, Therapies, Vibrational Sound Healing, Vigil Planning, VSED Support, Yoga, Restorative/Supportive

Categories of Service Advance Care Planning, Aromatherapy/Essential Oils, Celebration of Life, Ceremonies/Rituals, Client Advocacy, Companioning for Dying Person, Crystal Work, Directories, Education/Training, End-of-Life Doula Services, Green Burial, Life Review, MAiD Support, Massage Therapy (Licensed), Meditation/Visualization, Memorials, Other Therapies, Planning/Legal, Reiki/Energy Work, Respite for Caregivers, Reverent Body Care, Sitting Vigil, Spiritual Guidance, Support/Advocacy, Therapies, Vibrational Sound Healing, Vigil Planning, VSED Support, Yoga, Restorative/Supportive

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Feeling emotionally overwhelmed and anxious around an imminent death? Are you seeking to bring comfort and peace to your loved one throughout the dying process? With me as your guide, you’ll be able to truly rest in the beautiful, meaningful moments you’ll spend with your loved one before their passage.

My Holistic End-of-Life Doula Services include:

Advanced Care Vision Planning
Compassionate Care
Creating Sacred Space
Vigil Care
Rituals and Ceremony
Providing support and guidance for both MAiD (Medical Aid in Dying) and VSED (Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking). All with intention to restore death to its sacred place in the mystery, beauty and celebration of life.

My tool chest of holistic healing and comfort care modalities for end of life include, yet are not limited to:

light touch massage
guided meditation
gentle movement
Reiki
Sound healing and singing

I understand that supporting our loved ones and maintaining self-care at End of Life can be overwhelming for an individual/family. As a Certified End of Life Doula from the Conscious Dying Institute since 2019, I have embraced my soul’s calling to honor and support sacred transitions for several years. I provide loving, nurturing care for the body, mind and soul during the entire dying process. Through heartfelt conversation, divine intuition, an array of healing approaches and spiritual resources, I am that trusted guide. I have directed life transformational retreats for over 15 years and volunteer with Hospice and LIfeSpark Cancer Resources in CO.

A little bit more about me…

I was born in London, Canada, and moved to Colorado over 30 years ago. I presently live in the beautiful mountains outside of Durango, CO. My journey from a telecommunications corporate manager to a transformational well-being/spiritual retreat leader and intuitive healer commenced in 2004. Since then, I have owned and operated a B&B and Retreat & Holistic Healing Centers. I have been developing and leading transformational individual and small group healing and spiritual retreats for over 15 years in Colorado.

I love to naturally intuit or co-create personal comfort care sessions to meet the dying one’s evolving care needs during all phases of the transition process.

I serve the Durango Area and Four Corners Region, including Bayfield and Mancos.

A Complimentary Care Guide called, Durango End-of-Life Doula Care Guide – A Loving Approach to Death & Dying, written and prepared by Christine is available on her website (Available on my website)

“Dying with Grace: A Sacred Transition”, is an article that was written by me and published in EPIC Magazine Durango Edition Jan/Feb 2020. The article focuses on the contemplation of your beliefs around dying and creating a vision for your death.

Colorado Burial Preserve & Cremation Garden

Contact Name: Emily Miller

Location: 7997 CO-67 PO Box 667 Florence Colorado 81226 Phone: 719-280-2614Email: rzvyl@pbybenqbohevnycerfreir.pbzWebsite: Colorado Burial Preserve

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Green Burial

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Colorado Burial Preserve & Cremation Garden in Florence is the first cemetery in the state dedicated to conservation. Instead of the manicured sod and tight rows at a conventional cemetery, the Preserve is 65 acres of natural prairie-pinyon habitat. After a burial, the soil is amended and seeded with adapted native perennials to help combat invasive weeds. This proactive treatment improves the quality of forage and habitat for countless native and migratory birds, animals and pollinator insects. Families of the deceased find comfort knowing that the body can return to the earth in the natural way, and new life is enriched throughout our ecosystem as a result.

Colorado Burial Preserve, Ltd. was founded in 2020 in response to growing demand in the community for a wild final resting place. Development and Green Burial Council certification involved an Environmental Impact Analysis to thoroughly evaluate the baseline ecological conditions at the Preserve. As a certified Natural Burial Grounds, CBP permits only unembalmed remains to be buried in biodegradable caskets or shrouds. The burial gardens, which consist of both full body and cremation graves, are designed with extra-large spaces. This way, funeral services need not destroy the existing native vegetation or other unique features of the landscape. Options for memorial markers blend with the natural environment.

The first six burial gardens are available now for prearrangement and immediate need. Private tours of the Preserve are now available by appointment, and development continues on hiking trails, an outdoor service chapel, and a sustainably-built, off-grid restroom facility. When finished, the Preserve will be a public resource for nature enrichment, promoting awareness of our interconnected ecosystem, as well as a peaceful and beautiful location to establish the legacy of a family cemetery plot.

CBP Owner and founder Emily B. Miller, CMSP, is a licensed Funeral Director and Embalmer. She stepped away from a career in conventional funeral home management to become a leader in conservation burial in Colorado. Inspired by this history in funeral service, Emily envisions the Preserve as a catalyst for reclaiming burial rituals and climate-conscious end-of-life education.

Seven Stones – A Botanical Gardens Cemetery

Director of Customer CareContact Name: Rebecca Holm

Location: 9635 North Rampart Range Road LIttleton Colorado 80125 Phone: 303-717-7117Email: vasb@qvfpbirefrirafgbarf.pbzWebsite: Discover Seven Stones

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THE SEVEN STONES DIFFERENCE

New ideas. New options. New technology. To an industry that is traditional and slow to change, we bring creativity, innovative thinking, state-of-the-art facilities, extraordinary design and unique options. That’s the Seven Stones Difference.

We invite you to visit and learn more about this unique place. Come tour our grounds and let us share with you our vision for a cemetery unlike any other. Discover our modern choices and wide variety of burial options, including green burials. Hear how we’re integrating technology to help create more meaningful memorials, and learn how we’re creating a place that will stand the test of time.

Artistic Memorials: Using glass, metal and stone in new ways, we’re creating burial and cremation memorials that integrate light, form and the natural environment.
Modern Technology: With QR codes and videos, we bring a new, multidimensional experience to visiting the memorials of family and friends.
Green Burial: Seven Stones is consistently exploring the newest means of environmentally friendly burial and cremation options.
Pet Burial: Our Forever Friends program recognizes that the pets in our lives are like family and allows you to honor them accordingly.
Our People: We’re friendly, relaxed and here to help with any aspect of end-of-life planning or immediate needs, thanks to our broad experience with grief counseling, funeral planning and cremation and burial. If we can’t provide the service you need, we’ll help you find someone who can among our trusted partners.

VISION

We are not drab, dark, somber and scary. We are not rows of headstones. We are not backhoes and neglected landscaping. We are light. And nature. We are a gathering place. And an entertainment venue. We are family reunions. And a setting for stories told of loved ones. Of fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers. We are a chance to reacquaint yourself with friends and distant family. We are roses and poppies. Cottonwoods and creeks. Sculptures and waterfalls. We are where people remember, and pay honor, in a place where they feel good just being. We are inviting paths and welcoming people. We are a place that makes smiles easier to come by at a time when they’re the hardest to come by. We help to heal. And allow you to remember. We are beauty and nature. We are a slice of Colorado in the shadow of the mountains. We are the promise of a well-kept place for generations to come. We are Seven Stones.

The Natural Funeral

OwnerContact Name: Seth Viddal

Location: 102 West Chester Street Lafayette Colorado 80026 Phone: 720-515-2344Email: vasb@guranghenyshareny.pbzWebsite: TheNaturalFuneral.comVideo: Virtual TourVideo: Reverent Body Care

Categories: Affiliate End-of-Life Services, Directories, Flame Cremation, Funerals, Green Burial, Reverent Body Care, Urns and/or Caskets, Water Cremation